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ARMY LETTER. In democracies, the secret action of States requires rules and the conformity of clandestine practices with the spirit of the laws.
By Jean Guisnel
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DDoctor in political science, member of the Defense Ethics Committee, former director of the Research Institute of the Military School (Irsem) and now Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer is interested in many titles to the operation and employment framework of the intelligence services. He has just published a small book* on the crucial question of intelligence ethics. It deals with this question only within the framework of liberal democracies, where it makes sense, since it is in our States of law that the function of internal and external intelligence will, if necessary, be accountable within the framework of the law and in court. It is also a way of recalling that the necessary protection of secrecy is opposed to the no less essential tra…